Time to get a list and strategy figured out

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@socaldad2002 thanks for the advice. Not a safely, but she will apply EA to CWRU and Tulane, I’m thinking they will both make the final list and have EA. I think Tulane is a bit of a crap shoot for everyone at this point, but hopefully CWRU will be a yes. If so, that will make January-March much less stressful.

I think her app has to be in to State U (which has rolling admissions) by early December to get full scholarship consideration. So even though it won’t be her first choice, she should have the admit in hand and quite possibly a decent scholarship offer a couple of months before the gets the bulk of her decisions.

I think all the schools here are financially ok, aren’t they? Anyone think otherwise? Definitely I want to know. I guess this could be an issue with any safeties that get added.

Regarding Tulane, it’s a very tough admit unless you apply ED. They have no app fee and get tons of kids that apply there (44,000). In the last 6 years they went from around 30% acceptance rate to 11%. They defer many, many high stat EA kids. Demonstrated interest is big there but not always enough. With that said, being from the Midwest should help with their demographics.

Tulane accepted 720 kids in ED last year out of 2100 ED applicants. In the EA and RD rounds, they accepted 5400 out of 42,000 or so. So, the acceptance percentage at Tulane is obviously high in ED. They don’t break out EA and RD numbers but I assume it’s best to apply EA and there’s no reason no to do so. It’s just an earlier deadline. One has to assume that many of the 42,000 are throwing an app Tulane’s way because (a) it’s free and (b) there aren’t a lot of EA options for top schools. Not all of those 42,000 are competitive.